Making Babies
Anne Enright
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
'An unadulterated delight...suffused with a sense of love and very, very funny' Maggie O'Farrell
It's 2004 and Anne Enright, one of Ireland's most remarkable writers, has just had two babies: a girl and a boy.
Making Babies, is the intimate, engaging, and very funny record of the journey from early pregnancy to age two. Written in dispatches, typed with a sleeping baby in the room, it has the rush of good news - full of the mess, the glory, and the raw shock of it all.
An antidote to the high-minded, polemical 'How-to' baby manuals, Making Babies also bears a visceral and dreamlike witness to the first years of parenthood. Anne Enright wrote the truth of it as it happened, because, for these months and years, it is impossible for a woman to lie.
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1000 kilometres away from baby whisperer books, and one every petrified parent-to-be should read.
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Fizzingly entertaining. Reading it is like having a conversation with your funniest friend. Enright has pulled off that rarest of tricks: writing brilliantly about happiness
Sunday Times
Making Babies is an absolute joy, the perfect, intelligent antidote to poisonous books on the subject An unadulterated delight...suffused with a sense of love and very, very funny
Daily Telegraph
Gasp-making, jaw-dropping and eloquently astounding
Irish Indepedent
Enright is such an original and witty writer. Her tone is utterly unsentimental and kept reducing me to tears
Zoe Heller
Anne Enright is an eloquent writer...dazzlingly funny Making Babies is not just a good book, it's a good thing. It induces hope. It creates an appetite for life. It is also a very effective contraceptive
Ian Sansom
A hopelessly vivid maker of sentence, of the sort you can't help reading aloud to whoever happens to be nearby... Ms. Enright's commentary on gender politics and babies, like a swimming pool illuminated by underwater lights, also casts an entrancingly strange glow
New York Times